The film puts its focus on Antonio Salieri's relationship/obsession with Mozart. Salieri, the narrator of the film, is a composer who becomes jealous and infatuated with Mozart and his works. Mozart does not show much of an appreciation for Salieri's work, but Salieri still attends all of Mozart's performances and believes that Mozart has been blessed with a gift from God. Salieri's obsession with Mozart increases throughout the movie. When Salieri gets a chance to see some of Mozart's original scores he seems to have an unhealthy fixation on them. .
A plan is eventually devised by Salieri to kill Mozart and achieve more fame and fortune for himself. Disguised in a mask, Salieri goes to Mozart's house and commissions a death requiem. The mask Salieri wears was the same mask that Mozart's dead father used to wear. Salieri's plan was to murder Mozart and then take credit for the Requiem. Mozart became ill while still working on the Requiem, and was under pressure to finish it because of his financial situation. Salieri came to visit Mozart and ends up helping him with the Requiem by doing the writing while Mozart sings the music to him. Mozart died shortly after his collaboration with Salieri with the Requiem still unfinished. .
According to my research, the events dealing with the composition of the Requiem did not actually happen as they did in the movie. The Requiem was not commissioned by Salieri in disguise and any murder plot by Salier is just rumor. Count Walsegg-Stuppach commissioned The Requiem for his wife who had died in February of 1971. The work was commissioned in secrecy, but Mozart most likely knew that it was Walsegg because of a friend he had that lived in Walsegg's villa in Vienna. Mozart didn't work on the Requiem until months after it was commissioned. The Requiem was postponed while Mozart finished La clemeza di Tito and Die ZauberflÖte. On the day before Mozart died he was visited by friends that came to sing over parts of the Requiem.
Amadeus, however, is an exception. ... Amadeus covers the time that Mozart spent mostly in Vienna, the musical center of Europe at the time. ... Amadeus begins in the 1820s, with an aging Antonio Salieri screaming "Mozart! ... This person is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ... For example, in the film Amadeus, Saliari was Court Composer for Emperor Franz Joseph II. ...
December 4, 1792 was the date that the great Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died. ... In this movie, Amadeus, the extravagances of grandeur costumes and buildings are breathtaking. ... Amadeus exemplifies Salieri's ordinariness against Mozart genius. ... Mozart's personality in Amadeus is portrayed as childish, vulgar, and unfit. ... Therefore, Amadeus is still a treat to watch with dramatic twists to Mozart's life. ...
Synopsis Born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a musician capable of playing multiple instruments who started playing in public at the age of 6. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's was the sole-surviving son of Leopold and Maria Pertl Mozart. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his father returned from their last stay in Italy in March, 1773. ... Making It in Vienna Back in Salzburg in 1779, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart produced a series of church works, including the Coronation Mass. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart quickly found work in Vienna, taking on pupils, writin...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Born: Salzburg, January 27, 1756 Died: Baden, December 5, 1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was often considered the "most complete genius of all composers." ... v' The second half of the Enlightenment of the 18th century two geniuses Franz Joseph Hayden and the other was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the were introducing who wrote music called classical rather than Baroque. ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a man born into an amazing musical talent. When most boys were still running away from the girls that had cooties, Mozart was composing symphonies and operas. The movie AMADEUS illustrates Mozart's life as seen by another composer, Salieri. Throughout the movie Salieri...
The title of the movie was Amadeus and it's based on the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life. The movie takes place at the end of the 18th century near the end of Mozart's short life and the setting is in Vienna. A very important part of the movie was about Antonio Salieri because he is the nar...
Amadeus was a world wide profound success, receiving 8 academy awards with the help of director Milos Forman, and the producer Saul Zaenty. It's not about a famous musician and his works, but about a suffering old man, Antonio Salieri, who carries the guilt of destroying an artist of music, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, because of his lust for love. ... Filming of Amadeus took place in Prague where director Milos Forman found the ideal location. ... The best location made available to the makers of Amadeus was the Tyl Theater. ... A lot of people are not that in touch with classical music,...
At first glance, "Amadeus" seems like a filmed version of a classic story, but it quickly throws in modern elements to lighten the mood and make everything more relatable. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who seems like a college frat boy stuck in the body of this period character. ... There is a scene in the first act that perfectly symbolizes my view of "Amadeus." ...
In the movie Amadeus, Milos Forman brilliantly depicts Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's short-lived life and the classical era in which he lived. ... When he stated, "Nobody has devoted so much thought as I," this amplifies the feeling you get from watching the movie that Amadeus thought he knew everything and was without a doubt, the best composer ever. ... In the film, and somewhat in reality, Amadeus seemed to be the "leper" of his class. ... Milos Forman did a wonderful job of expressing the Classic spirit in Mozart's time in Amadeus. ...
